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むつごともまだつきなくにあけぬめりいづらは秋のながしてふよは
mutugoto mo
mada tukinaku ni
akenumeri
idura Fa aki no
nagasi teFu yo Fa |
Our sweet nothings
Are not done yet
Dawn is breaking, it seems.
Where has it gone-this autumn
So-called long night? |
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune
凡河内躬恒
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曉のしぎのはねがきももはがき君がこぬ夜は我ぞかずかく
akatuki no
sigi no Fanegaki
momoFagaki
kimi ga konu yo Fa
ware zo kazu kaku | With the dawn
The snipe beat their wings
A hundred times or more
On nights without a visit from you
I count them all. |
Anonymous
Topic unknown.
晨明のつれなく見えし別より曉計うき物はなし
ariake no
turenaku miesi
wakare yori
akatuki bakari
uki mono Fa nasi |
At the dawning
How cruel it seemed
To part, but
The fading moon
Cared not at all. |
Tadamine
忠岑
Composed during a gentle rain and sent to a woman he had been secretly seeing since the first day of the Third Month.
おきもせずねもせで夜をあかしては春の物とてながめくらしつ
oki mo sezu
ne mo sede yoru wo
akasite Fa
Faru no mono tote
nagame kurasitu |
Not awake and yet
Not sleepless through the night, and
With the dawn
Comes a scene from Spring:
Ever-falling rain to gaze upon all day. |
Ariwara no Narihira (825-880)
有原業平
'Simply moving and elegant'
